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One Year Later: How Changes to Illinois Divorce Laws Impact Middle-Class Spouses By: M. Scott Gordon About one year ago, the Illinois Bar Journal published an article about sweeping changes to Illinois family law that would impact both the language and substance of divorce, spousal maintenance, and child custody in the state. These changes to […]

Will New Illinois Child Support Laws Impact Collections? By: M. Scott Gordon When states like Illinois make changes to child support laws and the ways in which child support payments are calculated, can those changes have any impact on collections efforts? For instance, do child support collections needs increase or decrease with certain changes to […]

Five-Year Civil Union Discrimination Case Settled in Illinois By: M. Scott Gordon Perhaps you heard in the news about a legal case in 2011 in which the owners of Illinois’s Timber Creek Bed & Breakfast denied access to a same-sex couple interested in hosting their civil union ceremony at the location. At the time, same-sex […]

Divorce and Ownership of Electronic Information By: M. Scott Gordon When you file for divorce in Chicago and are taking the required steps for marital property to be divided, you might be wondering whether your spouse will have access to the private information you have been keeping on your computer over the course of your […]